Frank Burns, Phil Melanson, 10/24/1978

Item — Box: 129, Recording: 112

Identifier: MC1, series V, sub-series 4

Staff Only

Oral history interview with Frank J. Burns as a witness to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, 1987 October 24 and 29

Scope and Contents

From the Series:

Includes research subject files, photographs, videotapes, notebooks and audiotapes donated by private citizens and journalists who investigated the case. Donors include members of The Kennedy Assassination Truth Committee (the Floyd B. Nelson and Lillian Castellano collection), Robert Blair Kaiser, author of R.F.K. must die!, Philip Melanson, Dan Moldea, and Greg Stone. Their research files were combined to form the “Personal Name Subject files” and “Subject files” (Boxes 125-136); other materials from their files and articles written by them are found in the “General files” (boxes 105-107) arranged alphabetically by private investigator’s name. Their collected magazine and newsclippings were also combined to form one chronological grouping (Boxes 133-146). All of the audiotapes are in boxes 127-132. These files are considered an open series and may be added to periodically.

Dates

10/24/1978

Conditions Governing Access

no known restrictions.

Extent

1 Cassettes : Digital copy available

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Materials Specific Details

L. 30--Frank Burns organized the CA RFK Campaign. L. 39--He was in back of RFK and then he stepped in front of him--was near his right shoulder and slightly behind. L. 80--He felt heat burns of bullet. Said that the arc of the gun was pointing toward the floor! L. 125--Gun was about 6 feet from Kennedy at the edge of the steam table. L. 156--Angle of the gun at first horizontal and the end at a 45 degree angle off the floor. L. 259--Galvin, Uecker, and Burns grabbed Sirhan. There was an uneven sequence of shots. L. 335--There were several security guards in the kitchen!